Item #009369 Aubrey's Brief Lives; Edited from the Original Manuscripts and with a Life of John Aubrey by Oliver Lawson Dick; Foreword by Edmund Wilson. John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick.

Aubrey's Brief Lives; Edited from the Original Manuscripts and with a Life of John Aubrey by Oliver Lawson Dick; Foreword by Edmund Wilson

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Paperback. cvi, 341, [1] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. John Aubrey (1626-1697), English writer and antiquary, left a large number of manuscript accounts of acquaintances. Although heavily edited versions of his biographical essays had been published previously, this edition was "the first one that has been faithful to Aubrey's text and that has attempted to make a book from his manuscripts." -- Foreword. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; spine slightly faded; clean and solid. Very Good. Item #009369

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